You may choose not to share the details of your station or your methods of operation that can not be deduced from a public record of your QSO's. But all of the contacts were completely public. When
There are two problems with abuses of spotting information: 1) Using spotting network information when the category of submission prohibits it - this is cheating. 2) Using the spotting network infor
And trading music files is also strictly forbidden by legal statute. Yet these activities persist and are widespread. The music industry has for years been in denial of the facts on the ground but ha
OF COURSE they want the full call. So what? They would have to listen for 10 seconds and not barge in and out like an over-sugared two-year-old? When I'm operating at a multi-multi where the level o
I want to be sure to point out that I think the sponsors of the major contests do, with few exceptions, a very fine job of administering and adjudicating those contest programs. They do so with a pa
Dear Mr Locust... Because it would take an infinite amount of time to make an exact measurement of anything, your question is moot. By the time you complete the measurement, the Universe will be a u
Renegotiating or amending a signed treaty is never going to happen because amateur radio is pretty low on the priority list for the governments. Yes, I know, what are they thinking? What I have sugge
Agreed, but...the actual case: is too abrupt to be clear to the target audience. Granted, they will learn it quickly - and I take pains to encourage newbies to say less - but in one's first few cont
Heck, what makes us think that US hams know? :-) Sweepstakes and NAQP logs are *full* of goofs - MI gets entered for MInnesota and MIchigan and MIssouri and MIssissippi, MO for MOntana and MissOuri,
Well, those certainly include all of the traditional categories. I have promoted CWAC (Contests Within A Contest) for some time. Publication of full logs and the score database fully enables any sor
In this corner, running 5 watts and operating as the only entry from his zone, the challenger. <Yayyy!> In this corner, running a full kilowatt and operating from Zone 5, the champ. <Yayyy!> DING! A
Dealing with automated reception differently than automated transmission is appropriate because only reception can initiate a QSO; whether in response to a solicitation (CQ) or from tuning to a soli
You can cast the lure as much as you want, but if no fish bites, you have not caught a fish. There must be a reception event to trigger the process by which a QSO is conducted. Both reception and tr
There is a big difference between alternating transmissions between two channels and receiving on dozens and dozens of channels. It is not that antenna systems are not a distinguishing factor - ever
Concerns regarding robot operations are somewhat addressed already by FCC regulation. Stations operating under automatic control are restricted to very narrow segments of the HF bands. This would pro
Good idea, Prasad! You should also practice carrying two heavy transformers during the marathon! 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@cont
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Anyone from the Central Region (of the ARRL DX Contest results) that has a little extra time - I need one person to look at the ARRL DX CW results for that region and find a few stories to tell for t
I've got a better idea - how about we get **RID** of the word "assisted" entirely? It is far too vague to be of any use when we are really talking about sources and movement of information. I sugges
The editor program used to create the Contest Update newsletter munged the W2GD blog hyperlink. www.W2GD-Updates.blogspot.com is the correct URL for reading K1DG's blog on John's situation. Apologies